Courageous and Resolute Revolutionary Action

THE People's Republic of Albania recently solemnly declared its withdrawal from the Warsaw Treaty. This courageous and resolute revolutionary action by the great Albanian Party of Labour and the great Albanian people under the leadership of the great Marxist-Leninist, Comrade Enver Hoxha, has dealt the Soviet revisionist renegade clique a telling blow and has tremendously inspired the people of the East European countries in their struggle against modern revisionism headed by the Soviet revisionists. It is an important contribution to the international communist movement. The Chinese people wholeheartedly admire and resolutely support this revolutionary action by the Albanian people. Our great teacher Chairman Mao has pointed out: "The Albanian Party of Labour and the Albanian people have all along held aloft the great red banner of Marxism-leninism, firmly opposed the policies of aggression and war of U.S. imperialism and waved a tit-for-tat struggle against modern revisionism with the C.P.S.U. leading group as its centre." In firmly declaring their withdrawal from the Warsaw Treaty, the Albanian people, who have all along stood in the forefront of the anti-revisionist struggle, have shown a high degree of Marxist-Leninist principle. They are worthy of their role as a staunch task force in the international communist movement. The Warsaw Treaty has long become an instrument for aggression in the hands of the Soviet revisionist renegade clique in pushing ahead with its social-imperialism. By using this treaty, this clique has put the national defence forces of the other member countries into its hands, arbitrarily stationing its own armed forces and holding military exercises in these countries, and it controls, enslaves and plunders them. The Warsaw Treaty controlled by the Soviet revisionist renegade clique is no different from NATO controlled by U.S. imperialism. The Soviet revisionist renegade clique also has used the Warsaw Treaty as a means of carrying out its counter-revolutionary global collaboration with U.S. imperialism. In recent years, this clique has gone all out to link the Warsaw Treaty Organization with the NATO bloc. It has vigorously carried out the so-called "European detente'* policy, and helped U.S. imperialism to maintain its hegemony in Western Europe and shift its armed forces to the East and repress the revolutionary struggles of the Vietnamese people and the people of other Asian and African countries. The purpose of all these treacherous activities of the Soviet revisionist renegade clique is to collude with U.S. imperialism in a vain effort to redivide the world. The current Czechoslovak incident has laid bare the aggressive essence of the Warsaw Treaty. Flaunting the flag of the Warsaw Treaty, the Soviet revisionist renegade clique has blatantly carried out armed aggression and military occupation in Czechoslovakia. On its part, the Czechoslovak revisionist ruling clique, following a policy of national betrayal and capitulation, shamelessly signed the terms of surrender with the invader. This harsh fact shows that a country which is a member of the Warsaw Treaty has no guarantee whatsoever of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Since the Soviet revisionists have mustered some member countries to commit aggression against another member today, what would stop them from mustering a number of member countries to do the same against still another tomorrow? To take part in the Warsaw Treaty, therefore, is in fact to put oneself in the tragic position of being manipulated at will by the Soviet revisionists and being left to their mercy. For a long time, the Albanian people have been waging an uncompromising struggle against the criminal activities carried out by the Soviet revisionist renegade clique under the flag of the Warsaw Treaty, and they have repeatedly smashed this clique's despicable schemes to control, interfere in and subvert Albania. The announcement of Albania's withdrawal from the Warsaw Treaty has struck still heavier blows at the Soviet revisionist renegade clique. The Albanian people are a heroic people who lower to the skies. Rallying closely around the Albanian Party of Labour, they are defending their socialist fatherland with pick in one hand and rifle in the other. This staunch red bulwark standing firm on the European continent is invulnerable to any counter-revolutionary force. Comrade Enver Hoxha, the great leader of the Albanian people, has declared in words as strong as steel, "Whether in the past or in the present, the Albanian people cannot be cowed. The Albanian people and the Albanian Party of Labour are defending the frontiers and territory of Albania. Whoever will dare to touch Albania, let them come, they will never go back alive." The Albanian people are by no means alone. The 700 million Chinese people armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought firmly stand on the side of the Albanian people. Genuine Marxist-Leninists the world over firmly stand on the side of the Albanian people. The revolutionary people of all countries firmly stand on the side of the Albanian people. In a word, come what may, we and the Albanian people will always be united, will fight together and be victorious together. If the U.S. imperialists, the Soviet modern revisionists and their lackeys dare touch Albania in the slightest, nothing but a thorough, ignominious and irrevocable defeat awaits them. Today, a new historical era of opposing U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism has arrived. The just struggle of the people in the East European countries against the Soviet revisionist-controlled Warsaw Treaty will certainly surge higher and higher. The just struggle of the people in the West European countries against the U.S. imperialist-con trolled North Atlantic Treaty will certainly surge higher and higher, and so will the just struggle of the people of the world against U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism. The people of the world are uniting still more closely to launch a sustained and vigorous offensive against U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism. The doom of these two arch enemies of the people of the world is not far off!